The Quanta Podcast

Singularities Are Hard to Kill

Jun 10, 2025 · 23 min · Season 1 · Episode 6 · 34.0 MB
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Black hole and Big Bang singularities break our best theory of gravity. A trilogy of theorems hints that physicists must go to the ends of space and time to find a fix.

This is the fourth episode of The Quanta Podcast. In each episode, Quanta Magazine editor in chief Samir Patel speaks with the minds behind the award-winning publication to navigate through some of the most important and mind-expanding questions in science and math.